Minutes
Countywide Prevention Consortium
Chester County Healthy Communities Consortium
Subcommittee Meeting
10/27/03 at 10:00am

In attendance: Carol Henson, Terry Kenworthy, Rana Watterson

Meeting began at 10:30am due to bad weather conditions.

Terry opened meeting by expressing concern for individual CTC sites and their sustainability. Terry and Carol agreed that keeping our countywide consortium specific to current CTC sites and their needs is important and necessary at this time. It was agreed upon that opening the consortium up to other agencies is important and would be a future goal, after a solid, strategic plan is in place for out current sites. All agreed that devoting resources and technical assistance to our current sites is most critical and a priority at this time.

Terry discussed the pending Claneil grants. Terry said she has received positive feedback and that announcements are expected in December.

Group discussed developing/changing the name of our countywide effort. Per our previous meetings/minutes, it was suggested that we consider the words “healthy youth” in our countywide name. The discussion of our name lead to the discussion of a mission statement. Rana reviewed prepared mission statement ideas. Following has been tentatively approved by subcommittee members present, pending input from other members:

“The Chester County Healthy Communities Consortium is a web of agencies, individuals, and organizations created to connect resources which promote healthy youth and families throughout Chester County”.

Carol discussed ideas regarding a vision statement in addition to a mission statement. Carol suggested the words “risk assessment” be included in a vision statement. This matter will be further discussed at our next meeting.

It was suggested that we have our task force (from April) back in January to discuss a key leader meeting in the summer 2004. Invites for the January task force will go out in December. This will be further addressed at the next meeting.

Items to be discussed at our next subcommittee meeting (on Monday, November 17th) include:

1. Review of our countywide name and mission statement
2. Review of our goals, objectives, plans, and directions
3. Discuss/confirm January task force (date, and who can do what?)
4. Who will do what for the January task force?

Meeting adjourned at noon.

Submitted by: Rana Watterson 10/31/03.